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Have your read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
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Have your read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
Yes 88.9% (8)
No 11.1% (1) Thanks Mum for taking the survey!
Which statement best reflects your views about Snape:
I think Snape is a good guy 44.4% (4)
I think Snape is a bad guy (0)
I think Snape is neither a good or bad guy (0)
I think Snape is both a good and bad guy 44.4% (4)
Who's Snape? 11.1% (1)
Why did you answer #2 the way you did?
1. Good & Bad: The Connection - WBUR Interview Transcript 12 Oct 1999 What about Snape? JKR: Snape is a very sadistic teacher, loosely based on a teacher I myself had, I have to say. I think children are very aware and we are kidding ourselves if we don't think that they are, that teachers do sometimes abuse their power and this particular teacher does abuse his power. He's not a particularly pleasant person at all. However, everyone should keep their eye on Snape, I'll just say that because there is more to him than meets the eye and you will find out part of what I am talking about if you read Book 4. No, I'm not trying to drum up more sales, go to the library and get it out. I'd rather people read it. One of our internet correspondents wondered if Snape is going to fall in love. JKR: (JKR laughs) Who on earth would want Snape in love with them? That's a very horrible idea. There's an important kind of redemptive pattern to Snape JKR: He, um, there's so much I wish I could say to you, and I can't because it would ruin. I promise you, whoever asked that question, can I just say to you that I'm slightly stunned that you've said that and you'll find out why I'm so stunned if you read Book 7. That's all I'm going to say.
2. Good Guy: Maybe I just like Alan Rickman (who does play a great villain) but I think Snape is up to something that Dumbledore started and Snape is going to have to finish. He's spent too much time protecting the "good guys" and too many of his "bad guy" characteristics can be explained away (eg Dumbledore also asked him to protect his students, re: Malfoy). Did he totally take out Dumbledore or is the portrait of the headmaster going to play a part in the future? Or will Dumbledore do a Gandalf? (I think the phoenix is the key here.) Just some speculations.
3. Good & Bad: It makes him a more interesting and fully dimensional character.
4. Who's Snape? Must read those books. Mum
5. Good & Bad guy: I think that there has to be some reason that Dumbledore trusted Snape. He couldn't have been that wrong! I think Snape is a jerk, though. But he had to kill Dumbledore, or Malfoy would die.
6. Good Guy: Snape had to protect Draco (from the Unbreakable Vow) and I think the only way to do that was to kill, or appear to kill, Dumbledore. I suspect Dumbledore is still alive. The book makes a big deal about unspoken spells and I think either he or Snape did one to counteract the killing curse. Also, Snape's excuse for not killing Harry was weak. He probably could've captured Harry or hurt him a lot.
7. Good & Bad: I think Snape has potential to go both ways, he seems to feel obligated to "do the right thing" in certain areas, yet is unable to be totally good or bad.
No 11.1% (1) Thanks Mum for taking the survey!
Which statement best reflects your views about Snape:
I think Snape is a good guy 44.4% (4)
I think Snape is a bad guy (0)
I think Snape is neither a good or bad guy (0)
I think Snape is both a good and bad guy 44.4% (4)
Who's Snape? 11.1% (1)
Why did you answer #2 the way you did?
1. Good & Bad: The Connection - WBUR Interview Transcript 12 Oct 1999 What about Snape? JKR: Snape is a very sadistic teacher, loosely based on a teacher I myself had, I have to say. I think children are very aware and we are kidding ourselves if we don't think that they are, that teachers do sometimes abuse their power and this particular teacher does abuse his power. He's not a particularly pleasant person at all. However, everyone should keep their eye on Snape, I'll just say that because there is more to him than meets the eye and you will find out part of what I am talking about if you read Book 4. No, I'm not trying to drum up more sales, go to the library and get it out. I'd rather people read it. One of our internet correspondents wondered if Snape is going to fall in love. JKR: (JKR laughs) Who on earth would want Snape in love with them? That's a very horrible idea. There's an important kind of redemptive pattern to Snape JKR: He, um, there's so much I wish I could say to you, and I can't because it would ruin. I promise you, whoever asked that question, can I just say to you that I'm slightly stunned that you've said that and you'll find out why I'm so stunned if you read Book 7. That's all I'm going to say.
2. Good Guy: Maybe I just like Alan Rickman (who does play a great villain) but I think Snape is up to something that Dumbledore started and Snape is going to have to finish. He's spent too much time protecting the "good guys" and too many of his "bad guy" characteristics can be explained away (eg Dumbledore also asked him to protect his students, re: Malfoy). Did he totally take out Dumbledore or is the portrait of the headmaster going to play a part in the future? Or will Dumbledore do a Gandalf? (I think the phoenix is the key here.) Just some speculations.
3. Good & Bad: It makes him a more interesting and fully dimensional character.
4. Who's Snape? Must read those books. Mum
5. Good & Bad guy: I think that there has to be some reason that Dumbledore trusted Snape. He couldn't have been that wrong! I think Snape is a jerk, though. But he had to kill Dumbledore, or Malfoy would die.
6. Good Guy: Snape had to protect Draco (from the Unbreakable Vow) and I think the only way to do that was to kill, or appear to kill, Dumbledore. I suspect Dumbledore is still alive. The book makes a big deal about unspoken spells and I think either he or Snape did one to counteract the killing curse. Also, Snape's excuse for not killing Harry was weak. He probably could've captured Harry or hurt him a lot.
7. Good & Bad: I think Snape has potential to go both ways, he seems to feel obligated to "do the right thing" in certain areas, yet is unable to be totally good or bad.
